Besides regular payments to the cable company, consumers will have to fork out Rs500 per television set.

Nepal’s weak diplomacy has been a big barrier to addressing labour exploitation at work destinations.

Stricter document verification is likely to bring departures down even as Australian authorities announce schemes to retain international students.

In Asia-Pacific, only 44.1 percent people on average have access to at least one social protection benefit.

The demonstrating workers were demanding their backpay, and they were sent home after being paid in full, rights activists say.

Nepali citizens will receive the same rights, privileges, protection and dignity as health professionals from the UK, as per the agreement.

The country’s 92.52 percent population was connected to electricity by the end of the last fiscal year.

Farm labour shortages have hit developed nations, leading to reduced yields, experts say.

Rise attributed to dollar appreciation, growth in outbound worker numbers.

The manufacturers based in the Sunsari-Morang industrial corridor accuse the government of raising import and excise duties to protect a handful of factories.

If the government wants to replace foreign workers, observers stress the need to produce skilled manpower first when Nepali youths are leaving the country in droves.

The decision to hire Nepali workers in the service sector comes amid growing criticism of Qatar for poor treatment of foreign workers.

People are cutting down budget for meals, as plates have become more expensive in what is termed ‘lunchflation’.

Government fails to promote country after it reopened to foreign tourists following virus closures, travel traders say.

In the last fiscal year, more than 628,503 people received labour permits, the second highest number on record.